Michelia champaca

and
Michelia alba
(Bunga cempaka)
Group member:
Ong Shwu Chyn D20091034817
Krisnavimala Krishuan D20091034821
Yee Hon Kit D20091034822
Yaashini Selvarajah D20091034837
Pui Wan Ting D20091034840
TBD 2013
Developmental
Biology Development from flower to fruit
 Development in Michelia Champaca

Pollination

Fertilization and Embryo development

Ovary develops into fruit and ovule develops into seed

Fruits dispersed and seeds grow in a suitable condition

Similarity
 A large evergreen tree when grow in forest
 Usually small tree (6m) we can find around us
 Known for its strongly fragrant flower
 Contain many kind of volatile oil in its flower
 Perfect but incomplete flower (no sepals)
 Dicot plant
 Netlike vein
 Floral part in multiples of 5
Differences

Michelia champaca Michelia alba

 Light yellow when  Remain white in
young, turning dark young and maturity.
orange in maturity.  Zygomorphic simple
 Zygomorphic simple flower (irregular)
flower (bilateral
symmetry)
Michelia champaca (golden
champaca)
 Zygomorphic simple flower (bilateral symmetry)
Michelia champaca (golden
champaca)
Pistil/ Carpel

Youn
g
flowe
r
Petal
Michelia champaca (golden
champaca)

Matur
Pistil/ Carpel

e
flower
Stamen

Petal
Michelia alba
 Zygomorphic simple flower (irregular)

Petal Pistil/ Carpel

Stamen
Sectioning of flower

Video
 Fruit
1. Fruiting (follicles) is free.
2. Basally united to the axis or shortly
stalked.
3. 3-20 laxly that are arranged in a 6-9 cm
long cluster.
4. Fruit is flat­tened ovoid to slightly
spherical size 1.5-3.5 cm x 1-2.5 cm.
5. Partially woody, pale brown with white
warts con­taining 2-6 seeds.
6. Their fruits are about 30 in a cluster,
each with a 3 mm long and densely hairy
stalk.
7. The fruiting spike is compact.
 Types of Fruits

 Fruits are classified according to the arrangement

from which they derive.
 Michelia champaca is aggregate fruit.
 Each carpel develops into fleshy globule that contains
one of several seeds.
 Collection of follicles developing from one flower
 Seed

 Seed is ovoid and red-brown and in open fruit it is

hanging on little thin cord that is attached to the placenta.
 The seeds are brown with a pinkish fleshy aril.
 The seeds, 1-2 is brown when old ,polished and various
angled.
 The plant doesn't require pruning and has naturally full
and bushy shape. Seedlings start to bloom within 2-3
years
More images

Ripening fruit Bud growing into flower